What is right about the verification at the Quirinale evoked by the newspapers?
The perhaps imprudent bet on a government audit conducted by Mattarella. The Scratches of Damato
After the "discontinuity", indeed the "strong discontinuity" requested by Giuseppe Conte of Mario Draghi in order not to have the ministers still with five stars withdraw from the government, another term is back in the political news, between "background" and actual scene, or rite, of the so-called First Republic: the " verification " of government, or majority. In particular, the Republic also wrote about it with a reference on the front page and La Stampa only inside, both as a passage to the Quirinale in the event that next Thursday in the Senate the Grillini were to deny their trust in the government – granted instead to the Chamber – by not participating in the vote for the conversion of the “aid” decree into law. Which is indigestible to them especially in the part where the waste-to-energy plant in Rome allows. Where, however, behind the fires that have occurred with a frequency that is to say the least disturbing, criminal interests are suspected created around the eternal and very expensive crisis of waste collection and disposal.
The verification at the Quirinale, which some parties of the majority would think, according to the story of the Republic , is however a variant with respect to the practice of the First Republic. At that time it did not take place, in fact, at the Quirinale but at Palazzo Chigi. To conduct the verification was not the head of state but the prime minister, who this time would like to exempt himself from the task, it is not clear whether to protect him or to reduce his strength, also given the drop in the personal satisfaction index just detected and revealed. to Libero from Alessandra Ghisleri: from 60 per cent of his debut to 48 per cent, with a loss of 12 points, even if attributed above all to the five-star and Northern League electoral area. Which is the area of the two parties that have created the most problems for Draghi in a year and a half of government. But now the Grillini have surpassed the Northern League as protesters, being the government "hostage" – as the title of an editorial in Domani says – "of Conte's narcissism". Which perhaps induced Matteo Salvini to restrain himself to leave the other majority shareholder, the one he privileged in the first majority of this legislature, the political burden of a crisis in the midst of old and new emergencies.
However, there is a danger – from the point of view or of interest of the parties wishing for this passage – that the "verification" at the Quirinale was conceived and pursued without taking into account the availability of those who should lead it, as happened in the days I passed with the so-called "Draghi bis": ventilated by the grillini and eventually also by the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta to remove the specter of early elections, underestimating the unwillingness confirmed by the Prime Minister to change government and type of majority, with pentastellati outside the former and formally still participate in the latter with external support. So much Draghi confirmed his unavailability that the secretary of the Democratic Party had to stop talking about it, going back to indicating the latest possible of this legislature in the current government.
Who can really guarantee or bet on the readiness of the President of the Republic to manage a kind of pre-crisis, rather than the real crisis that opens with the resignation of the government in office and with the ritual consultations, and not of constitutional obligation ? It is a question that should be asked at least by a reporter or a political commentator considering the paternity, also human, of the Draghi government, strongly supported by Mattarella at the end of the botched crisis of the second Conte government. A government, that of Draghi, for whose protection the President of the Republic has even resigned himself to the re-election to which he was unavailable, at the request of the Prime Minister himself, even before the parliamentary group leaders paraded at the Quirinale, when the choice of a successor to the top of the state became dangerous for Palazzo Chigi.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/verifica-quirinale/ on Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:46:15 +0000.